A systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 years / Paul Hutchings in Water policy, Vol. 17 n° 5 (octobre-décembre 2015)

Public ISBD [article]  in Water policy > Vol. 17 n° 5 (octobre-décembre 2015) . - 963-983 Titre : A systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 years Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Paul Hutchings, Auteur ; Mei Yee Chan, Auteur ; Lucie Cuadrado, Auteur ; Fatine Ezbakhe, Auteur ; Baptiste Mesa, Auteur ; Chiaki Tamekawa, Auteur ; Richard Franceys, Auteur Année de publication : 2015 Article en page(s) : 963-983 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : RAMEAU Approvisionnement en eau Thésaurus Agrovoc Zone rurale ; Communauté Résumé : Community management is the accepted management model for rural water supplies in many low and middle-income countries. However, endemic problems in the sustainability and scalability of this model are leading many to conclude we have reached the limits of an approach that is too reliant on voluntarism and informality. Accepting this criticism but recognising that many cases of success have been reported over the past 30 years, this study systematically reviews and analyses the development pattern of 174 successful community management case studies. The synthesis confirms the premise that for community management to be sustained at scale, community institutions need a ‘plus’ that includes long-term external support, with the majority of high performing cases involving financial support, technical advice and managerial advice. Internal community characteristics were also found to be influential in terms of success, including collective initiative, strong leadership and institutional transparency. Through a meta-analysis of success in different regions, the paper also indicates an important finding on the direct relationship between success and the prevailing socio-economic wealth in a society. This holds implications for policy and programme design with a need to consider how broad structural conditions may dictate the relative success of different forms of community management. Type de document : Article Permalien de la notice : https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=182598 [article] A systematic review of success factors in the community management of rural water supplies over the past 30 years [texte imprimé] / Paul Hutchings, Auteur ; Mei Yee Chan, Auteur ; Lucie Cuadrado, Auteur ; Fatine Ezbakhe, Auteur ; Baptiste Mesa, Auteur ; Chiaki Tamekawa, Auteur ; Richard Franceys, Auteur . - 2015 . - 963-983. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Water policy > Vol. 17 n° 5 (octobre-décembre 2015) . - 963-983 Catégories : RAMEAU Approvisionnement en eau Thésaurus Agrovoc Zone rurale ; Communauté Résumé : Community management is the accepted management model for rural water supplies in many low and middle-income countries. However, endemic problems in the sustainability and scalability of this model are leading many to conclude we have reached the limits of an approach that is too reliant on voluntarism and informality. Accepting this criticism but recognising that many cases of success have been reported over the past 30 years, this study systematically reviews and analyses the development pattern of 174 successful community management case studies. The synthesis confirms the premise that for community management to be sustained at scale, community institutions need a ‘plus’ that includes long-term external support, with the majority of high performing cases involving financial support, technical advice and managerial advice. Internal community characteristics were also found to be influential in terms of success, including collective initiative, strong leadership and institutional transparency. Through a meta-analysis of success in different regions, the paper also indicates an important finding on the direct relationship between success and the prevailing socio-economic wealth in a society. This holds implications for policy and programme design with a need to consider how broad structural conditions may dictate the relative success of different forms of community management. Type de document : Article Permalien de la notice : https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=182598